Allows Rural Service Providers to Purchase Cedar Point VoIP Switch Using Government Financing

DERRY, NH--(Marketwire - August 4, 2008) - Cedar
Point Communications, a worldwide leader in integrated Voice over IP
(VoIP) switching technologies for communications providers, announced today
its SAFARI C3
Media Switching System has been accepted and listed by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) for use in its
Rural Utility Service (RUS) loan program for funding broadband network
deployment projects. RUS certification authorizes Competitive Local
Exchange Carriers (CLECs) and rural communications providers to use funding
from RUS grants and loans to purchase Cedar Point's equipment.

Rural carriers face numerous challenges including remote subscribers,
limited staff and capital. The SAFARI C3 Media Switching System is an ideal
platform for rural carriers to evolve their networks to provide Voice over IP (VoIP) services that
deliver greater average revenue per user (ARPU) to consumers and
businesses. SAFARI C3 provides superior performance and reliability,
significantly reducing capital expenditures, system integration and
operations costs for providers of telephony services while increasing
network integrity, security and privacy.

"Our RUS certification makes it possible for all carriers, regardless of
their size or footprint, to offer advanced new VoIP services to rural
communities while conserving capital and expense dollars," said Chris
Zanyk, vice president, North America sales for Cedar Point Communications.

Cedar Point has shipped more than four million SAFARI C3 lines to customers
in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. SAFARI C3 supports up to
250,000 lines of capacity in less than a cubic yard of space, incorporating
all of the components that make up the voice switching infrastructure. It
is being deployed for residential and business services by a diverse
customer base that includes Cable System Operators, Competitive Local
Exchange Carriers (CLECs), Wireless Operators and Universities.

About Cedar Point Communications

Cedar Point Communications' integrated switching platform enables the
scalable, simplified and cost-effective delivery of VoIP and multimedia
services for communication providers and network operators. Designed to
provide carrier-class performance and reliability, while increasing network
integrity, security and privacy, Cedar Point's SAFARI C3 Multimedia
Switching System supports legacy circuit, NCS and SIP-based voice services,
as well as a migration path to IMS. The company is based in Derry, NH with
offices in Meersburg, Germany, and Sophia Antipolis, France. For more
information, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com.